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Civil Disruption vs Civil Society
The curious case of the Turtle Island terror plot
The Turtle Island Liberation Front is so anti-American that it doesn’t believe there should be an America. While this ideology exists in other, formally organized advocacy nonprofits, the alleged terrorist…
by Tiffany Gabbay on December 18, 2025

Organization Trends
Tides reports 2024 financials
The left-leaning funding network reported more than $784 million net assets in 2024. A lot, but less than previous years.
by Robert Stilson on December 18, 2025

CRC in the News
CRC News: Antifa, energy independence, and lots of InfluenceWatch
Over the last few weeks InfluenceWatch and Capital Research Center have been featured in news reports regarding George Soros, Greta Thunberg, Antifa, and much more. Links and excerpts are provided…
on December 17, 2025

Philanthropy
A conversation with The Nonprofit Crisis author Greg Berman (Part 2 of 2)
The editor, author, and former nonprofit leader talks about whether his critiques of the nonprofit sector apply more to grantmakers than grant recipients, whether there’s a distinction between civil society…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 17, 2025

Organization Trends
SPLC’s “Charitable” Wealth (Best of 2025)
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is among the most-controversial major left-of-center activist nonprofits in the country, and rightly so. What truly sets SPLC apart, even among its activist-charity peers,…
by Robert Stilson on December 16, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #389: Mainstreaming Race Communism
The Groups, the justly maligned nonprofit and otherwise-professional activist groups whom moderate Democrats blamed for the failures of the Biden administration on the economy and immigration, are back and bolder…
by Sarah Lee, Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on December 16, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
Southern Poverty Law Center is the subject of House Judiciary hearing tomorrow
Tomorrow afternoon the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing titled "Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC's Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy.”…
on December 15, 2025

Philanthropy
A conversation with The Nonprofit Crisis author Greg Berman (Part 1 of 2)
The editor, author, and former nonprofit leader talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the nature of the nonprofit crisis, the fairness of some (cross-ideological) critiques of the nonprofit sector, the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 15, 2025

Education Reform
The NEA’s latest battle is a direct attack against conservative parents
America’s largest teachers’ union has a training guide to help teachers identify, argue with and marginalize conservative parents.
by Kali Fontanilla on December 12, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on December 12, 2025